Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1839
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This portrait of French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 - 1834) was woven of fine silk using the mechanism that he developed and patented in 1804. Jacquard's device employs punched cards to store the intricate pattern design and to control the loom. These loom cards eventually led to the data cards used in early digital computers.
This portrait of French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 - 1834) was woven of fine silk using the mechanism that he developed and patented in 1804. Jacquard's device employs punched cards to store the intricate pattern design and to control the loom. These loom cards eventually led to the data cards used in early digital computers.
Artifact
Portrait
Date Made
1839
Subject Date
1831
Creators
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Produced by Didier Petit et Cie, Lyon, executed on a Jacquard loom by Michel-Marie Carquillat, based on the portrait of Jacquard by Claude Bonnefond
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
39.173.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Gabrielle Dannenfeld.
Material
Silk (Textile)
Dimensions
Height: 45 in
Width: 34 in
Inscriptions
Imprinted below portrait: À la Mémoire de J.M. Jacquard, Né à Lyon le 7 Juillet 1752, Mort le 7 Août 1834. Lyon: Didier Petit et Cie, 1839. Obverse: A LA MEMOIRE DE J. M. JACQUARD
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